Postdocs

Information for Postdocs. See similar page for all academic visitors.

Student Visa

- Obtaining a student visa (make sure that your passport expiration date is far away):

Get yourself a local SIM card (you will need it for all the later steps). There is a store at the center across the street, called Blue Phone; they sell prepaid SIM cards by 019 mobile. The SIM card costs 40NIS (one time), and a standard plan (including unlimited calls + 20GB data/month) costs 49NIS/month. The phone number at the store is 03-5259192.
Get yourself a bank account and a debit card. Inside campus, you'll find a branch of Mizrahi Tefahot (bank code # is 20, and the branch code # is 414). Make sure to bring in your postdoc invitation letter, your passport, and the number of your local phone.
Fill the two forms: Postdoctoral fellowship application form and Registration form for postdocs. Submit them (along with your passport-sized photo, a photocopy of your passport, and a photocopy of the approval of your Ph.D. degree) to Rivka Wolberger.
Get yourself an health insurance. One option is fill the form of Harel Yedidim and mail it to Einat@yedidim.co.il.
Ask your postdoc advisor to assign you a room and P.O. box of the department, and to fill and submit the scholarship payment form.

Go to the bank to pick up your debit card.
Go to Rivka Wolberger to pick up your student card, to create an Inbar account, and to provide there your bank details, so that you can receive your monthly scholarship.
Contact Doron Kurzberg to receive username+password for your unix account.

Your email address is LOGIN@macs.biu.ac.il, where LOGIN stands for the username of your unix account. To access your mailbox through the web, click here. To download your mail using POP3, configure your email client to use the server mailhost.cs.biu.ac.il, port 110. To set up mail forwarding, read the instructions.
Your website address is http://u.math.biu.ac.il/~LOGIN, where LOGIN stands for the username of your unix account.

The dormitories do not supply linens, sheets etc. please make sure to bring whatever you need.

You will need to take a permanent payment form from the dorms headquarters and bring it to your bank. This will set up an automatic monthly payment of your rent and water/electricity usage.

Note that the dorms have a laundry room, and that you can pay in it with cash (the instructions there seem to insist that you download some app to pay with your phone, but in fact you only need to have 11-13 NIS exact change (maybe times two, for the washer and the dryer)).